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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-12-17
CanInesCood Samaritans.
brunswick Telegraph


The reader will recall the story we told a
Salome Fl. Snow and Mr.. Chaplin Weston Of
this town. They were great friends but the
Weston dog was fond of roaming and had
persuaded the other dog to follow him. Mr..
Cruikshank at the Harding farm, not liking
this roaming business, tied up the Snow dog.
Then the other animal came to see what was
the matter and found his friend safely hal
tered After a moments confab together,
the Weston dog deliberately ate up the din
her of the other, and then gnawed off his
natter, and the two had run together Mrs.
Cruikshank witnessed the whole movement,
but did not interfere, as she wished to see
the end of it.
Mr.. Lorenzo Larrabee of this town owns
spaniel. of good if not Of full blood, and Mr..
G. III. Allen owns a c0lley, quite pure blood,
we should say; both are very bright dogs,
formed the NEST loving friendship, and are
constantly together, their owners living only
a few rods distant from each other. Mr..
Larrabee thinking that his dog might prove
an annoyance at the Allen house, tied him
up few days ago at his shop on Union
street. lie left the shop upon some business
and when he returned his dog was gone, and
the rope with which he had been tied looked
as if it had been gnawed. He again tied the
spaniel, and this time he was where he could
witness operations, and he saw the collie
come up and greet his imprisoned friend,
and then go to work aud gnaw off the rope.
Mr.. Larrabee told us on Monday that this
had been done several times, so that he had
made up his mind to no longer tie his dog.
The animals were having the finest time in
the world Monday when we saw them, and
are full of tricks.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-12-17

President Cleveland's method of reducing
the revenue is by lessening the amount re-
ceiyed from the ta-iff on raw materials and
manufactured goods. The internal revenue
taxes he does not propose to touch, neither
does he propose to interfere with the duty
on sugar What the result of that method
would be is clearly pointed out by the Phila-
delphia Press. $SO,OOO,0OO is the amount of
reduction which the administration thinks
should be made. For the year ending June
30, 1887, the tariff and internal taxation
yielded a revenue Of $212032,424. One
fourth Of this, or SIS, 0l6. 6S6 came from sugar.
Tobacco brought in S9,0O0,O0O, and whiskey
and beer about 100000; jewelry 100000;
laces S1,Oo0,OOO; velvets 100000; gloves
100000; perfumery $4,000; music boxes
$350,000; and other luxuries $500,000-in all
100000 from luxuries pure and simple.
Besides this $13,000.OOO is raised ON silks
which Secretary Manning last year included
among the luxuries. President Cleveland
proposes to confne the reduction to the nee
essaries of life-excepting sugar-so none Of
the above can fkure on his list of articles on
which the tariff is to be reduced. Now from
sugar, tobacco, whiskey and the above emu
merated articles the revenue is $95,034, Ala,
and as no reduction can be made on this ac-
cording to the plan of the Cleveland admin
istration, the cut must be made on the arti-
cles which yield the remainder OF the reye-
nua Thasp articles are.
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Mr.. Lamar and the Constitution.

The disposition with which Mr.. Lamar re-
CARDS the Constitution. of which he has been
selected by President Cleveland as one of
the defenders, has been much disputed
point Of late. An incident which occurred
in the United States Senate in 1879 shows
that at that time, at least Mr. Lamar held
some very dlsloyal views of the Constitution
On the seventh Of January of that year Mr..
Edmunds arose in his place in the Senate,
and said: "Mr. President, this glad morning
of the new year when there are peace and
joy and hope everywhere, / think it the best
possible time to offer resolutions which
hold in my hand, which i trust will have a
tendency, If they be unanimously adopted, as
/ hope they will after they are printed, to ce-
ment more perfectly the good will and con-
cord and unity of sentiment which are sup
posed to exist all over the country" The
resolution was as follows;
Resolved. AS the judgment of the Senate, that
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments to the Constitution of the United States
la we been legally ratified and valid and of
the same paramount authority as any other part
Of the Constitutions that the people of each State
have common interest ia the enforcement of the
whole Constitution in every State Of the Union.
and that II Is alike the right and duty Of Congress
citizen In the exercise of all the rights thereby
cured by laws OF the general character already
passed Tor that purpose and by further appr0pri-
ate legislation, so far as such enforcement and
protection are not secured by existing laws, and
that II is the duty of the Executive Department of
the Government faithfully and with diligence TO
carry all such laws into impartial execution and
o. congress to appropriate all moneys needful TO
Resolved. Further that 1t is the duty OF Con-
gress 10 provide by law for the fun and impartial
protection OF all citizens of lie United States
iegaly qualled, IN the right to vote for Represen
latlVes ~ Congress; and 10 this end the Commit
tee on the Judiciary be. and II hereby is in
sfructed 10 prepare and report. as soon as may be-
a bill for the protection OF such rights and the
punishment Of infractons thereof.
On February 9th, after full debate, these
two resolutions were voted on and adopted
separately On the first, declaring that the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution are "as
valid and of the same paramount authority
as any other part" of that instrument, Mr..
Lamar voted ''No." On the second resolu-
ton, instructing the Judiciary Committee to
report bill for the protection of citizens In
their rights under these amendments; Mr..
Lamar also voted mo" By the first OF
these votes Mr. Lamar, calmly, and after
nearly month for reflection, declared form
ally that the three great amendments which
were the fruit of the Civil War, were not as
valid or Of the same paramount authority as
any other part Of the Constitution. 1t is to
be hoped that on the Supreme Bench he
would hold different opinion.
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they Didn't steal the whistle.
belfast Journall

IBtIaSt JOuInaI.J
Mr., Orlando Sanborn, who runs a steam
mill in Waldo for woodworking purposes, re-
Gently bought large whistle from a steam
ship and placed it on his mill a number Of
boys conceived the idea of stealing the whis-
tie, and Mr. Sanborn, hearing of the plan,
remained in his mill all night. Sixty pounds
of steam was kept up. About midnight the
boys put in an appearance and climbed up
on the roof of the building. Just as one APP
piled wrench to the whistle, Mr.. Sanborn
opened the throttle wide, and there went up
into the stiffness Of the night such screech
jumped from their beds in alright and won
dered what was up. The boys tumbled off
the roof of that mill as though shot, and as
they departed, as rapidly as their legs won Id
carry them, Mr.. Sanborn fired gun. The
whistle is still there.
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A serious falling out is reported between
President Cleveland and Senator German, of
Maryland. What Cleveland says Of German
is not reported; and what German says of
Cleveland won't bear reporting. Higgins,
too, is mixed up in the affair, though only
to be ground between the upper and neither
milestone. The cause of the trouble is said
to be that German and Higgins recently
made bitter opposition to Democrat in
Maryland in whom the President was inter
ested. They did not suppose that the man
had any special influence at the White House.
When Cleveland learned how busy Higgins
had made himself, the latter was dismissed.
The most interesting result of this affair is
the sacrifice Of Higgins. Not for his Often
sive partisanship, not for his notorious par
ticipation in corrupt political intrigues, was
he dismissed; but because in one of his ad-
ventures he happened to cross the path of
the President. He poached in Cleveland's
preserves, and suffered accordingly.
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JOHN cREENLEAE WHITTIER.
BY REV. E. c. CUMMINGS.

BY REV. f. c. CUMMINGS.
Poet Of reverend bro and solemn eyes,
Whose years have measured well our human lot,
Calm looking toward the home where years are
not,
What trust is thine, what worshlpful surmse,
What heayen-born comfort proof against surprise,
What beauty rare without deceit or blot
Beyond these changing winds and troubled skiesl
IT'S said that days should speak, that age is
wise,-
Thy days have told for us in generous verse
What mean the struggles our brief times rehearse,
What coming times forevermore shall prize
Late mayst thou seek thy waiting paradise,
And all the benedictions that can greet thee here
Be humble presage Of that happier sphere.
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A souvenir Of the war.

An interesting incident lately transpired
relating to a well-known ex-Bridgtonian,
Col. Albion G. Drinkwater now Of Brain
tree, Mass He served as private in the
First Maine Cavalry, in the late war, and
while at the front he fashioned the badge of
his army corps out of silver quarter. This,
vice. A few DAYS ago he was surprised at
receiving Southern letter by way of Top
sham, his old home, the writer of which in
formed him that he had just plowed up the
longlost silver badge, and which was sub
ject to his order The Colonel at once wrote
the honest finder, and by return mail came
the souvenir. to his unqualified delight.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-12-17

The Hazeltine library building at Belfast
is completed and ready for the books, which
will be put in between now and Feb. list.
The building has been erected from lega-
cy left for the purpose by the late Paul r.
uazeltine, and is the only stone building in
the city. The body of the structure is of
red granite, from Otter Creek, and the finish
and trimmings of Somesvilie gray granite.
The stone are rough ashlers, laid in break
range courses, with red cement between. The
building is "a feet long and q feet wide at
one end, and II at the other. Tue westerly
end is square, and the one on Miller street
octagon in shape. The vestibule is 12x14
feet. The rooms are 10 feet from floor to
ceiling. The roof is a Mansard, laid with
colored slate, and is surmounted by an iron
ciesting.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-12-17

SATURDAY MONRING, DEC. IL.

The parliamentary elections in Yarmouth
and Shelbourne counties in Nova Scotia fail
to reveal that enthusiasm for commercial
union which if it prevails anywhere In the
Dominion would be found in Nova Scotia,
for Nova Scotia has for some years been
uneasy and once has voted to secede from
the Dominion confederation. The most
prominent issue in both elections was COM
mercial union, the Liberals advocating it
and the Conservatives opposing it. In Var
mouth the Liberal candidate was elected,
though by reduced majority, while in Shell
bourne the Conservatives elected their candl-
date for the first time in the history of that
constituency.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-12-17

The Lewiston Journal, with that lofty air
of omniseience which it is wont to assume
when talking about something of which it
knows little or nothing, observes that sit
turns out that the only ruling he Judge
Whitehousel has made on this point [the
primG fdcie clausel was his well-known
dictum of last September" 1t is little
curious that when it published the Judges
ruling it did not notice that it was his WELL
known dictum Of last September and so in
form its readers. Judge Whitehouse de-
clares that he never has given decision
where the point decided on Thursday was
directly involved, but of course the Lew
iston Journal knows better about that than
he does
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On TINS list reduction OF SoU,UUU,UOU Must
be made. As the mere cutting down of the
tariff is much more likely to increase the
revenue than decrease it by stimulating i'm
portations, to make the $S0,O0O,ooo reduction
required, about all the above articles must
be put ON the free list. In other words our
manufactures must be left totally unpro-
tected. The most advanced free trader here
tofore has admitted that the change from
protection to free trade must be made gradu-
ally, else widespread disaster would follow.
The Cleveland programme, however, appar-
emily contemplates a change ali at once, let
the consequences be what they may.
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Thoroughly Reliable and Enterprising
rNYinthrnn Rannar

We take pleasure in recommending a good
thing when we know it is good thing, and
from long acquaintance with the Portland
Press we know that it is paper we can sim
cerely recommend to our readers as a thor
oughly reliable and enterprising newspaper,
honest and fair in its political views, and of
a high moral standard that may admit it to
the best homes, from which many of the
trashy sensational dailies are, and ought to
be- excluded,
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Speaking Of the prind fdcie clause of the
L.. L Il

liquor law, the Lewiston journal says.
The act Of the Legislature does not deny the
right OF trial 20 any man who pays this tax. III
simply makes such payment pTtllad fdcte evidence
of his guilt or In other wor0s throws the burden
of proof on him. He may have trial, and may
show that he paid the tax Tor legal purpose II he
can. Before the law was passed, the payment OF
this tax was considered prtnsG fdcte evidence OF
guilt by the courts. For what does man pay
this tax unless he intends to sell liquor? That is
a question which the respondent must answer-in
reason as well as In law.
Now if, as the journal informs us, the
courts considered the payment of tax pri-
ma fdcie evidence of guilt before the law
was passed, why on earth did the Legisla-
ture pass the law? Does the Journal mean
to be understood that couple hundred men
spent several days at an expense of several
thousand dollars to the State putting law
on the statute books to make something pri-
ma Tacie evidence which had always been
prina .facie evidence? In short, does the
Journal mean to accuse the Legislature of
stultifying itself?
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CITY OF PORTLAND.
Proposals for Collection and Pur-
chase of Offal.

THE undersigned will receive proposals for the
a. collection Of Offal from houses, retail and
wholesale grocery and fruit stores, and from retail
fsh stores. Collections 10 be made ttom every
street in the etd three times a week, and six
times a week where required so TO do by the
Board of Health. The service 10 begin on the ex-
piraton OF the present contract, namely, the nrst
day of May next.
Separate proposals viii be peceiyed for the pur-
chase of Ofal (if the city shall collect the saIne)
in quantities of one barrel and upward, or BY the
cord, to be delivered at some eonyenien mt place.
Proposals Will be received until twelve O'Clock
Wednesday noon. December %, 1887.
The right Is reserved 70 reject any or an pro-
posas. GEORGE G.. BURGESS, City Clerk.
Portland. Dee IS. 1887. dect3eodtd
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How Many are pIckeY,s?
[Aroostook Pioneer

The Woodstock Sentinel says there are or
will be when the railway bridge at Freder-
Teton is completed, ten bridges crossing the
st. John river; all of these, except the sus-
pension bridge at st. John and tine one at
Grand Falls, have been built within period
of little over ten years.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-12-17

girl. well brought up, and not expecting to
cry for the moon and obtain 1t, who went
a-Christmasing with her mamma among the
attractive counters of great shop. There
had the aiders and abettors of Santa Claus set
forth their wares in profusion and beauty to
turn the heads of the old and experienced, to
say nothing of this small Margaret of the
Athenian's notebook. She asked for moth
ing, she expected nothing, but whenever
new object pleased her fancy she sidled up
to it and sang to it a cooling little song of APP
proval. This fable teaches that song is the
natural expression of baby heart, and that
the instinct of the kindergarten is correct,
which sets all sorts of action to music, makes
lyric all the budding arts of the household,
sweeping, washing, ironing, and losses the
ball to measure. One of the prettiest posi-
BILE aids to nursery or school music is vol
ume of Songs and Games for Little Ones, just
published by Messrs. Oliver Ditson Co.,
of Boston, and arranged by Miss Gertrude
Walker and Miss Harriet Jenks-the latter
young lady pleasantly remembered In So
ciety as former resident of Portland. Part
of the songs and music are new, expressly
written for this volume; others chosen by
permission from St Nicholas, the Youths
Companion and other publications, or from
works of individual authors, Mrs. Celia
Thaxter, Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge. Miss
Lucy Larcom. Mr.. George Cooper and Others
The music. selected from classic composers,
as well as from unpretending sources, is
simple and within the easy range Of chill
dren's voices. One suspects that Santa
Claus will include many copies of this music
book among his gifts, to be rewarded by
hearing the children sing from it. Portland;
Loring, Short & Harmony
A Garland for Girls, by Louisa NJ. Alcott,
contains seven stories suggested by names
of flowers, and bright with the fresh and
pleasant quality which makes Miss Alcott's
work so deservedly popular. May Flowers
were group of Boston girls, whose ances-
tors came over in the elastic ship taxed to
its full capacity unless its tonnage riyaled
that of the Great Eastern. These young la
dies formed a society for the help Of those
less happy, and Miss Alcott relates their do
ings with much spirit An Ivy Spray and
Ladies' Slippers is an attractive story of
society Cinderella with a genius for the
dance Little Button Rose is quaint study,
rather in the key of Mrs. Burnett's inimit-
able Little Lord Faunteroy. Poppies and
Wheat, Pansies, Water Lilies and Mountain
Laurel and Maidenhair are the titles of the
other stories, all of which will be eagerly
read by the young girls of Miss Alcott's adj
miring clientage Boston: Roberts Broth
ers; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
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Remarkable Record.
Ellsworth American

a person who has recently visited Pros
pect Harbor informs us-and it is just what
we should naturally expect to hear-that no
person has been seen intoxicated in that
pretty village for twenty years. The village
has but three church members. but it has
built nice church and supports a settled
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a Bonanza for a Maine Man.
maine Sentinel1

.
A few years since Mr.. Melville c. Small Of
East Limington bought Western land claim
of neighbor, who wished to dispose of
the same in order to raise little money to
buy horse, etc. The sum paid was, / think
about 5000 Mr.. Small now finds that the
claim covers piece of land in the central
part of a rapidly growing city in Iowa, and
he has already been offered $4,000 for the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-12-17
a Great Landlord.

lihOuoOu oldtC.l
1t is stated that Hon, Llewellyn Powers
owns more acres of land in Maine than any
other person in the State, having no less
than 10000 acres. 1t is increasing in value
every year and is said to be the finest in.
vestment that one can make. Mr.. Powers is
well to the front among the wealthy men of
the State
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CITY ApvERTIsEmENrs
$500 REWARD.

CITY MARsHAL's OFFICE.
PORTLAND, Nov. 7, 1851.
A REWARD of twenty-five dollars will be paid
N for information that viii lead to the arrest
and conviction Of any person or persons guilty OF
breaking glass In any public building or church IN
this city,. EZRA HAWKES.,
nOySdtf City Marshal.
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One of the Best Papers In New eng.

[Kennebec Democrat.

The Portland Press is giving more atten-
ton to Maine news than in former years and
is now one of the best papers in New Eng
land
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PROHIBITION IN WASHINGTON.
Hartford Cnurant


There are indications that the prohibition
question will achieve some prominence at
Washington this winter. At a conference of
Republican Senators on the subject last
week it was agreed to begin the national
work by pushing prohibitory bill for the
District of Columbia. 1t is believed that
there will be enough Democratic Senators
who will vote for the measure TO Offset any
Republicans who may oppose it. Among
Democratic Senators who are reported as
favoring such legislation are Cockrell, Col
guilt, Maxey, Morgan, Brown, Reagan, and,
last but not least, Vance, late governor of
North Carolina, the same who made the
famous remark to the governor of South
Carolina. 1t Is reported that at the confer
ence referred to there was general agree
ment among the Republicans present that
the next national convention should insert a
plank denouncing the organization of
brewers, distillers, and saloon keepers Tor
the purpose of defying and violating the
laws or of opposing the enactment OF re-
strictive legislation.
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THE wHIsKEY TAX.
CBridgton News.]

Mr.. Blaine, in his Paris message, fayors
IT, retention of the whiskey tax, assigning as
the reason in substance that to abolish the
tax would tend to cheaper whiskey and
thereby vastly increase its consumption, re-
move all governmental restraints upon the
illicit distillation of whiskey, and overthrow
the sautary effect of the high-license move
ments in the interest of temperance In pro-
gress in some of the States. Very many, no
doubt, will regard this point as well taken;
and yet we confess to very little sympathy
with the argument. Be whiskey cheap. or
dear-and 1t is dear at any price-the con-
firmed whiskey drinker will guZzle all he can
get and il he hasn't the money to pay for it
he will contriye In some way 20 produce an
equivalent. Neither the government tax or
''high-icense" has in our judgment had
much to do with the great decrease in whis-
key consumption in the past thirty years;
this Is attributal to entirely different causes.
The apparent recognition given to the liquor
tralhc by the levying of the tax is a very
great annoyance among temperance people
everywhere; and as to "high-license," the
principle is radically wrong and should not
be allowed TO enter into the consideration
certainly not from the standpoint of a Maine
prohibiti0nist like Mr.. Blanel So, we feel
warranted in observing, the whiskey tax
need not be retained in the interest of tenn
nerance reform. III the condition of the ma
tionaI finances can stand its abolition, we
feel safe in guaranteeing that the great mass
of temperance ret0rmers throughout the
country may easily be reconciled to the sit
uation.
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CURRENT COMMENT.
WHAT THE CLUBS CAN DO.
New York Tribune.1

The permanent organization of Republic
can clubs is of the highest Importance. Re-
presenting the people, these organizations
controlled by young men, they are able to
reach new voters. A large distinction /;
these clubs will work for the Republican
cause. There are plenty Of men already at
work for the nomination Of favorites, and
for the election of fayorites when nomin-,
ated But the life of party is in the men
who work for its principles, and strive to
commend them to popular approval, with
out regard to the choice of candidates.